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take a picture
Idioms and Phrases
Photograph, as in I'd love to take a picture of your garden . This idiom was first used in the 1600s for making a drawing or other portrayal. It was transferred to photography in the mid-1800s.Example Sentences
Jurors were shown a photo taken by Alice Whysall-Price, a holidaymaker out for a walk, who is believed to have been the last person to take a picture of the tree intact, the court heard.
The company always had a policy of inviting guests to grab whatever movies they wanted out of the Closet, but this time, according to Becker, their social-media person suggested they take a picture of Del Toro in the Closet and post it online.
I stood there in front of this sculpture just appreciating it, but I forgot to take a picture of it—even though I could have, for the first time in a couple of years.
“But if that’s real, I think I got to go meet them. I think I got to spend some time with them. Got to take a picture with Saquon for sure.”
“I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to take a picture because at least if my phone is retrieved, they’ll know what happened.’”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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